Licensing Methods
Two licensing methods are supported for Graph Lakehouse:
Altair Units Licensing
Altair Units is a value-based license management system enabling metered usage of an entire suite of products. All Altair Data Analytics products have the capability to use a single pool of recyclable Altair Units. The license units consumption of Graph Lakehouse depends on the CPU resources (the number of CPU cores on the host system). As of this version, Graph Lakehouse consumes 6 units per core.
Managed Altair Licensing
For Managed Altair Licensing, the License Server is hosted by Altair, and the application checks out the required license units by contacting the license servers in the Altair One cloud via HTTPS. For information on managing your licenses at the Altair One™ portal, see Administrator Dashboard and Account Administration in the Altair One Documentation.
HTTPS connectivity must exist from the Graph Lakehouse host to four servers in the Altair cloud:
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Managed Licensing Client: client.hhwu.altair.com
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Managed Licensing Auth Sever1: auth.hhwu.altair.com
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Altair License Activation System: alas.admin.altairone.com
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Altair One Admin Portal: auth.admin.altairone.com
If you are using a proxy server for HTTPS connections, there is an option to specify a proxy in the application settings if necessary. If you are using a Proxy Auto-Configuration script, you can add exceptions for these servers in the proxy script to allow both inbound and outbound https traffic.
Access to the Altair One portal https://altairone.com from the web browser is required for at least one user to manage the account (authorize machine(s), add users, view the license usage, download usage history logs, etc.) and access software downloads, documentation, resources (videos, white papers, etc.), Customer Support portal and user community.
On-premises Altair License Server
If you opted for a self-hosted Altair License Server, the Graph Lakehouse application checks out the required license units by connecting via TCP to a license server with Altair License Manager running in your corporate network or in a cloud managed by your organization.
Altair License Manager is an LM-X license server built and distributed by Altair, which includes features such as License Distribution Service, automatic heartbeats, license borrowing, and High Availability Licensing. It uses a proprietary TCP/IP based protocol and uses port 6200 by default. The license file, which defines the licensed features and the available number of Altair units in the license pool, is tied to the MAC address of the license server host.
The Altair License Manager software installation & administration guide and release notes are available on the Altair Documentation website (search for "Licensing" in the product filter and select "Altair License Management System").
License Keys
Graph Lakehouse activation with a Cambridge Semantics license key is a legacy method supported in parallel with the new Altair Units Licensing. To obtain and apply a license key, please refer to the topic Install or Upgrade a License.